Liberal Democrat Newswire is the free monthly newsletter I produce about what's going on in the party, how the party is doing in elections and polls, the latest campaigns and policies and what the plans are for the future.
We hope you enjoyed our traditional offering as much as we enjoyed putting it together. The star of the piece, our party President Mark Pack, had his own news splash on Ed Davey's battlebus with a difference. And so the party's cheese-merchants-in-chief have been bashing around ideas to replace a traditional battlebus with something more eye-catching. Which is why that local election launch featured Ed Davey in a tractor. If you watched very closely, you'll have seen that he wasn't driving it, but rather had a driver beside him, a press officer squeezed in behind them both next to a ...
In a surprise move today, the government announced it would ban meat eating by 2042 as part of its commitment meet climate change targets. The move comes after prime minister Rishi Sunak and energy and net zero secretary Grant Shapps failed to impress with Thursday's launch of Powering Up Britain. Critics said the UK could not meet the target of a net zero Britain by 2050 without further action. Today, the government published a suite of documents setting out a roadmap to a meat free Britain. In a statement this morning, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said: "I am committed to ...
The Green Liberal Democrats elected their new executive committee at Lib Dem Spring Federal Conference in York last weekend. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Chair: Keith Melton Honorary Treasurer: Jordan Summers Vice Chair Policy: Kevin Langford Vice Chair Organisation: Anne Robson Vice Chair Communications: Jules Ewart & George Miles Vice Chair Campaigns: Jed Marson Youth Officer: VACANT Local party secretary Frank Little writes: It is sadly typical of our times that no younger person has come forward to work to further the development of the organisation.
From the Curator of Museum Services at the University of Dundee : Ian Kennedy - Celebrating a Comics LegendLamb Gallery, Tower Building, University of Dundee Ian Kennedy (1932-2022) is a legend in British comics. Acclaimed and respected by fans and fellow artists alike, his career in comics spanned over 70 years. Born and educated in Dundee, Ian began work as a trainee illustrator in the Art Department at DC Thomson & Co in 1949. In 1954 he became a freelance artist and began doing work for Amalgamated Press in London as well as Thomson in Dundee. He became particularly known ...
General elections are really unusual beasts. There's very little inside politics, let alone outside politics, to match what running a national general election campaign is like. That makes doing it well a challenge, especially given typical staff turnover between elections. It's one of the problems that the Thornhill Review highlighted. Which is why, as I mentioned in my May report back, the party is using this May's local elections as a dry-run for a general election. The compliance tam, for example, will be trialling a daily Zoom drop-in surgery to support agents. Ed Davey is also putting in a very ...
Former Prime Minister Liz Truss has resigned from the Conservative Party after it was revealed that she has been acting secretly as an agent for the Liberal Democrats for thirty years. In a bizarre series of events, the disclosure that an hereditary peerage was being lined up for Liberal Democrat President Mark Pack, sounded alarm bells which led to Ms Truss' uncovering as a Liberal Democrat "sleeper". When journalists confronted Mark Pack outside his home, he could not avoid admitting the truth, saying: I approached Ms Truss in the nineties at a Lib Dem conference in Brighton after her speech ...
